“NINOTCHKA is a delicate flirtation and political satire made into a perfect whole … Famously, Garbo opened that clenched mouth of hers and laughed like a loon; the feelings you’ll have will go deeper.”
—Time Out

“Garbo Laughs!” was the tagline for this sublime comic concoction. Directed by Ernst Lubitsch and written by the team of Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett, it is indeed a showcase for Greta Garbo’s hitherto unseen and, frankly, unsuspected comic talents. She plays a Soviet operative, dispatched to Paris to check up on a trio of straying functionaries, who discovers, and is greatly inconvenienced by, love. Co-starring Melvyn Douglas, Ina Claire, and every character actor in Hollywood. In 35mm.